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1. A 1918 New York Times article suggested Germany was trying to make Americans “cokeys” and “hop fiends” with…

Drugs mixed into sausage

Drugs in toothpaste and teething syrup

Narco-polkas

2. How much “ditchweed”—wild hemp with no psychoactive properties—did the DEA destroy in 2005?

219 plants

219,000 plants

219 million plants

3. As the “methedemic” raged in 2004, how many meth “superlabs” did federal authorities seize?

55,500

550

55

4. During the late 19th century, most opium addicts were first turned on to the drug by…

Doctors

Hobos

Chinese opium dens

5. Which of the following did not support efforts to criminalize marijuana in the 1930s?

Pharmaceutical industry

American Medical Association

Liquor industry

6. Nearly what portion of Mexico’s arable land is used to grow drugs?

1/5

1/4

1/3

7. Which president first declared cocaine “the most dangerous drug problem that the US ever faced”?

William Taft

Ronald Reagan

George W. Bush

8. Who was the Senate’s most strident drug warrior in the 1960s?

Barry Goldwater

Robert F. Kennedy

Strom Thurmond

9. In which decade did Americans’ illegal drug use decline most rapidly?

1980s

1990s

2000s

10. In 2004, the White House buried a study that found that a $1.4 billion anti-pot ad campaign had…

Increased first-time pot use among 14- to 16-year-olds

Increased first-time pot use among whites

Both A and B

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